Back in November Darroch Nurseries hosted an excellent online workshop together with Andy the Woodland Crofter and Jacqui from Knoydart Tree Nursery CIC on starting up a native tree nursery in Scotland. Here’s the full recording from the session.
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I fully understand the logic behind growing indigenous trees but I would like to grow non indigenous trees also as some of the older Scottish estates have some brilliant trees which deserve a place in the Scottish landscape even if not native
Yes there are some great non-natives of interest for agroforestry etc too. But the focus of new tree nurseries in Scotland, and the real need for them, is to grow native trees from the correct provenance for native plantings. There’s a real lack of these at the moment.
Most tree nurseries, even if they specialise in native trees will grow some non-natives for particular interest or purposes too.